STICK WITH WHAT WORKS

This article is not for the recreational player who is happy to lose their $50-$100 a month and reload. Or has fun trying to see how many times they can win with 7-2os.

This is for the player who knows they can play and wants to perfect what poker is all about, MAKING MONEY. There are the rare exceptions that can play all forms of poker well, Omaha Hi-Lo, Stud, Razz, Limit Hold'em, No Limit Hold'em, etc...

But even within NLH, there are cash games, Heads Up, SNGs. Multi-table SNGs, tournies. That's alot to choose from and try to be good at. My advice is to select the game that you are most profitable at and squeeze every dime you can out of it.

Look at your stats (if you don't keep track of your sessions / games and your ROI from them you need to start). If 9 tabling .25/.50 razz has you up over $500 in your last 5,000 hands, you'd better start playing 20,000 hands a month if you can. AND FORGET ABOUT EVERY OTHER GAME OUT THERE.

If your goal is to make money playing poker, find your game and play the crap out of it. Do not stray into PLO 'cause it looks like fun, don't waste 6 hours playing a MTT to make $1.50 when you could have crushed $10NL, playing two tables for 6 hours making 10 bb/100 hands. (and vice versa).

Another reason players don't make as much money as they could is by playing too many or too few tables at the same time. This will require tracking and experimentation but find the optimal number of tables you can play.

For example:

Your ROI at $22 SNGS is 30% when playing one table at a time. Play 100 games, on average, your profit will be $660 but will take 100 hours to play (1 hr per game).

Say your ROI drops to 20% when you add another table, but you can now play twice the amount of games in the same time period. 200 games in 100 hours at 20% ROI is a profit of $880 or 33% more than playing one table.

Find what you do well and do it more often. Sounds simple but so few do it. Challenge yourself to do this for one month and I guarantee it will be the most money you have ever made in one month playing poker.

+1 to some quality advice.